VEB Robotron - East German Computer Innovation (1987)
VEB Robotron - East German Computer Innovation (1987)
How one hour of slow breathing changed my life - by James Nestor (The Guardian)
For me, the perfect breath is this: inhale for about 5.5 seconds, then exhale for 5.5 seconds. That’s 5.5 breaths a minute for a total of about 5.5 litres of air
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It took me years to find out why. Most days, I treat it like a stretch, something I do after a long time sitting or stressing, to bring myself back to normal. By the law of averages, you will take 670m breaths over your lifetime. Maybe you’ve already taken half of those. Maybe you’re on breath 669,000,000. Maybe you’d like to take a few million more.
Knowledge Management Funnel
Mercenaries target American citizens in cities around the nation
What was once practiced by mercs in Baghdad, Fallujah, and Kandahar is now taking place on the streets of America. Supplementing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paramilitary forces targeting peaceful protesters around the country are private security personnel contracted to DHS by Constellis, the mercenary company once known as Blackwater. See as well this related video.
Western Bumblebee Population Drops Up To 93% Over the Last 20 Years
The western bumblebee is one of around 30 bumblebee species in the western U.S. and Canada. Now a federal review "unveils an alarming trend for the western bumblebee population, which has seen its numbers dwindle by as much as 93% in the last two decades".
The Leaf Sheep sea slug is an animal that uses algae to perform photosynthesis.
The water balance on a site in Bengaluru (via). Unbuilt and Built. The challenge is to restore the previous balance
Elonmusk continues his effort to spend lots of money to transport tiny numbers of people
The Boring Company’s “public transit” system has become a valet stand in a parking garage.
Cargo bike share is happening in a big way in Germany - run by municipalities, and supported by the Federal government. The TINK platform helps other municipalities get started. The TINK support platform for municipalities joins @copenhagenizers in the vast global market for eliminating autonomous four wheeled vehicles from cities
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (NYTimes)
For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.
Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth'
The Pentagon's on-and-off-again, once-covert UFO program is decidedly back on—and will soon reveal some of its findings to the public. An astrophysicist who consulted on the UFO program confirms the government possesses materials from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
US Mainstream Media: "Contact tracing is good. Tracing child pornographers is bad." God forbid they ever seriously talk about the rapidly growing use of mass surveillance databases (NSA & friends) for political blackmail, industrial espionage and market front-running - on a global scale.
Explosions at China GCL facility threaten 10% of global solar production
One of the world’s largest producers of polysilicon, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, has reportedly been forced to shut a major production facility in China after five explosions rippled through the facility. According to California-based investment banking group Roth Capital Partners, the closure takes as much as 10% of the global supply of polysilicon – a key ingredient for solar power systems – out of the global supply.
#Comment: What are the chances, that this mysterious explosion wasn't an accident but part of the ongoing hybrid warfare campaign against china? The pattern certainly is suspicious.
The true price of pesticides is unaffordable
The European Union has banned many active pesticide ingredients due to damaging health and environmental effects. With leading global agrochemical firms seeking new markets to conquer, developing countries urgently need strict controls.
Solar-driven membrane distillation technology that can double drinking water production
A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), led by Dr. Kyung-guen Song from the KIST Water Cycle Research Center and Dr. Won-jun Choi from the KIST Center for Opto-Electronic Materials and Devices, has used solar energy technology to develop a highly efficient membrane distillation technology that can produce drinking water from seawater or wastewater.
Urban planning is facing multi-layered challenges to manage the transformation towards a more sustainable and inclusive society. The recently evolved concept of an “urban commons” responds to the crucial need to re-situate residents as key actors. Urban food commons summarize all initiatives that are food-related (e.g., cultivation, harvest, and distribution), aiming at a visualization and utilization of value chains and the commons-based linkage between them.
We explored first insights of food commons in Berlin based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Urban food commons strengthen identification, participation, self-organization, and social resilience, are steered by bottom-up processes, and can be a powerful tool for a transformation towards urban sustainability. However, a viable political integration of existing initiatives lacks due to structural implementation problems. Respondents recommend a pooling of all initiatives in a strong network and a mediation interface to coordinate between food commons and city administration and politics. A combined approach of commons and edible cities will be helpful for the development of future prove food systems.
Venus, long-thought dormant, shows signs of volcanic activity
Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to be recently active — and probably still are today — painting the picture of a geologically dynamic planet and not a dormant world as long thought. The research focused on ring-like structures called coronae, caused by an upwelling of hot rock from deep within the planet’s interior, and provided compelling evidence of widespread recent tectonic and magma activity on Venus’s surface, researchers said on Monday. The research has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.